154 of the 226 federal politicians are on Twitter, with about a third yet to sign up for accounts. And between them they have posted 167,928 tweets, amassing 2,388,166 follows.

With 1.71 million followers, Kevin Rudd has almost as many Twitter fans as everyone else combined.

The median number of tweets per account was 389, although 30 politicians have tweeted fewer than 100 times and three have only sent out one tweet since signing up to the service.

Parliamentary secretary for defence Mike Kelly takes the crown as the most prolific tweeter, having sent out more the 11,000 updates.

Keep in mind that these counts were accurate as of Friday afternoon. However, several politicians may have tweeted since then to boost their tally, which means this data set could be slightly out of date.